Display-cabinet.



F. A. GROWDER.

DISPLAY CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1. I914.

Patented Dec. M, 1915.

amen tom Ffl. flrowdar COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH CO, WASHINGTON-D. c.

DISPLAY-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1d, 1915.

Application filed October 7, 1914. Serial No. 865,569.

1 Columbia and State of Florida, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display cabinets v and the principal object of the invention is to provide means for supporting a quantity of merchandise in such manner that it may be readily displayed or held in a compact and out of the way position so as to occupy small space for shipment or storage.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide novel merchandise supporting means which can be extended from the cabinet or collapsed within the same and which embodies adjustable supporting members adapted for the accommodation of articles of different sizes.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a novel form of hanger supporting brackets upon which the articles to be displayed can be mounted.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in which Figure l is a side view of the cabinet with parts broken away and showing the article supporting means in extended position. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail bottom plan view of one of the lazy tongs. Fig. 4 is anenlarged side elevation of one of the hanger supporting brackets. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view showing av modified form of the article supporting means connected to the upright.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents a casing which may be constructed of any suitable material and may be made of any size to accommodate the parts adapted to be inclosed therein. The casing may be closed by the usual door indicated at 2, which is hinged to one of the sides or may have an open front covered by drapery or in a similar manner.

Mounted in brackets 3, 4, and 5 secured to the bottom, rear. and top of the cabinet is a shaft 6 upon which is adjustably mounted a limiting collar 7. This shaft has also pivoted thereon the rear links 8 and 9 of a pair of lazy tongs 10 and 11, which are connected together by the sectional posts or uprights consisting of the tubular sections 12, and the telescopic sections 13 which fit into the tubes and are held in adjusted position therein by set screws 14. The outer ends of the outer links 15 and 16 of each lazy tong are connected together by an adjustable post 17 having a handle 18 thereon by which the lazy tongs may be drawn out of the cabinet, being supported in such extended position by the caster wheels 19 projecting through the lower links and ournaled in the tubular sections 12 of the posts. The bearings at the ends of the links 8 and 9 may be of any suitable type but are preferably ball bearings so as to reduce friction to a minimum.

Each bar 9 is made relatively wide and has a plurality of brackets 20 secured to its under side and adapted to slida-bly support the rods 21, as shown. These rods have at one end knurled heads 22 and at their opposite ends are provided with a hook 23 which is adapted to engage over a longitudinal bar 24: extending approximately the full length of the links 9. Each rod 21 carries a depending hanger 25 which is swiveled thereon and has secured to its central portion a sleeve 26 in which the hook of a coat hanger 27 is removably engaged. As will be seen. the rods 21 may be moved transversely of the brackets 20 or rotated therein to release or engage the hooks 23 of the bar 24. In. this manner after the lazy tong supporting links are extended into the position shown in Fig. 1, the rods may be released from the bar 24 and pulled outwardly so as to display the articles mounted upon the hangers 27. These hangers, as is generally known, may be simply coat or skirt hangers or combination coat and skirt or coat and trousers hangers.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, the posts at opposite ends of the links 9 have adjustably mounted thereon the trees or frames 28 which are held in adjusted position by the set screws 29 and preferably supplied with article supporting members such as the hat standards 30.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the character described, a casing, a shaft mounted in the casing, separated pairs of horizontally disposed lazy tongs pivotally connected to and adjustably mounted upon the shaft, means for 'pivotally holding the lazy tongs in adjusted separated relation, and article supporting members associated With the lazy tongs.

2. In a device of the class described, a casing, a shaft mounted in the casing, two pairs of adjustably connected lazy tongs connected to and adjustably mounted upon the shaft, garment support ing members associated With the upper lazy tongs, and means depending from the lower 10 lazy tong for supporting both of said lazy tongs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. v FREDRICK ALBERTA CROWDER.

Witnesses J. B. Honens,

A. E. GoMPuL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

